# Coroner to examine Met’s response to poison warning before student’s death

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/met-police-to-be-quizzed-over-suicide-poison-prevention-after-getting-warning-from-grieving-mother-just-weeks-before-british-students-death/
- Published: 2026-11-03T22:02:25+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-03T22:18:25+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16263225/Met-Police-quizzed-suicide-poison-prevention.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: UK, World

## Key points

- Coroner to ask what the Met knew about the poison.
- A warning reached police weeks before Parfett’s death.
- Investigators identified 286 UK recipients of Law’s packages.

## Summary

A coroner will question the Metropolitan Police about what it did after receiving a warning that a woman’s daughter had died after taking a poison sold by Canadian Kenneth Law. The warning came weeks before 22-year-old student Thomas Parfett died in October 2021, raising concerns about whether action could have prevented him from obtaining the substance.

The inquest heard that a National Crime Agency investigation has identified 286 UK recipients of Law’s packages, linked to an estimated 79 deaths. The coroner said there was evidence Parfett bought the substance from abroad without checks, and that a suicide discussion forum may have influenced his decision; Ofcom has blocked the site for UK users, though some existing users and people using VPNs can still access it. Law has pleaded guilty in Canada to assisting 14 suicides there.

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